Mexican tribal/machaca. Dear paisanos, can we fucking not??

Country music. That twangy sound is super grating to me, I hate the way certain vowels get stretched out, plus I have no cultural touchpoints with it on either a lyrical or musical level. The stuff that seems most popular is the most obnoxious to me. I’m told this is “the Nashville sound”. Different strokes for different folks, but I sincerely don’t get the appeal of it.

But there’s some country-adjacent music that can be alright. E.g., my husband got really into Sturgill Simpson and I ended up more or less liking his Sound and Fury album, even if some of the vocals do have that irritating twang. I guess I’d consider that more like country-infused rock.

And I guess some older country can be OK once in a while - e.g., Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton.

I find some types of rap include lyrics I find offensive, and so I skip them.

I do not enjoy a lot of country music. If it sounds like the theme song to firefly - I’m so conflicted - I wouldn’t listen to it otherwise.

But that’s a personal preference. I did some Algerian rap the other night, and it sounded really good.

I’m afraid of listening to Grateful Dead for the fear of possibly liking it.

Anything ‘AI’ generated, because fuck that uncreative nonsense.

Maybe music that reminfs me of people I hate. Perhaps I’m being petty though.

Christmas music, because I worked in retail and had to listen to it 8 hours a day for months.

Corporate country music. Bo Burnham specifically wrote a song about it (lyrics link, since the song is technically a podcast episode w/ no accessibility).

Americana/folk, like Dolly Parton and Woody Guthrie are a far cry from the fox-news-to-a-melody garbage that gets put on country stations.

It’s the musical equivalent of John Wayne vs John Brown.

PS: Fun fact - Woody Guthrie wrote a scathing song about Fred Trump, so the war between the working class and that cursed name goes back at least a century.

Country. I associate with my upbringing in Klan country where I went to Robert E. Lee High School and got to experience federally mandated desegregation busing, which doesn’t do shit to decrease racial divisions in housing but does drive white people into religious schools in droves to avoid letting their children ever mingle with minorities. They fucking love that country music, though. I will never listen to it voluntarily if I can avoid it.

This is gonna sound like a pretty weird train of thought, but I cannot listen to that Pharrell Williams song “Happy” because I’m my brain has forever connected it to the time I had some bad pea salad from a local place, which completely ruined both of them for me. Every time I hear it, even in my own head, my stomach starts churning a little and I eventually start to feel like I wanna throw up. Thankfully that song has died and I hope to god nobody ever revives it.

Lost Prophets. I’m usually one for separating art from artist but fuck that baby raping piece of shit and if a member of your band rapes babies there’s no way you’re oblivious to the whole thing.

Fuck Ian Watkins, fuck those that ignored and/or enabled his despicably evil behaviour because he was your pay day.

I believe every genre is filled with good and bad music. I used to think I didn’t like country or reggae but it was really just the mainstream music of those genres I disliked. Mainstream country has a lot of stereotypical lyrics and mainstream reggae has a lot of slow single chord riffs. But after a bit of digging I found artists and songs that explore those genres in more unique ways.

Hillsong, Elevation and especially Bethel music - basically “Christian Worship” music mass produced for money and has loads of dodgy theology

“Patriotic” rap.

There’s certain classical music that goes into very high notes, it hurts my ears and I can’t stand it. My dad loves classical music and I feel bad not being able to share his joy for it, though there is some that I don’t mind.

Also metal for same type of reason, some guitar noises just hurt my ears.